Project timeline

Using Project timeline

Executives may want a 90-day view to get a sense of long-term trends for their organization. Managers may want to compare data across sprints or see how events in their organization affect their work.

Executives and managers use Project timeline to:

• Understand productivity
• Ensure teams are on track
• Communicate with stakeholders using data
• View sprint data over time
• Spot roadblocks and debug development life cycles
• See when a team is working on a big release, updating older areas of the code base, or writing new code
• Demonstrate how a team's work is disrupted by late-stage changes to a spec from a product manager or other stakeholder

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Work volume

The first graph in Project timeline shows you the aggregate work volume for your team.

Use the Work volume dropdown menu to select which volume type appears in the graph. View Commit volume, Code volume, Commits per active day, or Total Impact.

Check the boxes to select what data type the graph shows. View trends, moving averages, or daily averages for a period of time.

Hover over a bar in the bar graph for more details about a data event.

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Adding events

Add events to the Project timeline to provide context to historic data. For example, you may want to look back on hackathons, planning days, or offsites.

Create events for new hires. This helps team leads understand ramp-up and explain spikes in code or commit volume.

Import or create sprint calendars to provide quick filtering by team or organization. Learn how to create a calendar.

To add an event:

1. Click Add event.
2. In the pop-up modal, select the calendar you want to add and click Next.
3. Enter the event name, date, time, repeating, and event type parameters.
4. Click Create.
5. Review the event and click Done to finish or click Add event to add another event.

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Viewing work type breakdown

The Work breakdown graph shows how the metrics associated with the Coding metric work types have changed over time.

Use the Work trend dropdown menu to filter how work trends display on the graph. View absolute, relative, or stacked work trends—choose the option that helps you best tell your data story.

Hover over data on the graph to view details on work type trends, broken down by lines of code, at a specific time.

Details are broken down and color coded by work type. The work type key displays the names and colors of these work types. It also displays the percentage of work by work type.

Use the Total work breakdown section to view the totals for each work type, both for the total percentages of work by work type, as well as for the total lines of code for each work type.

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Navigating work types

Find the Code focus highlights at the bottom of Project timeline. These graphs show the most prolific users individual contributors for New work, Legacy refactor, Help others, and Rework.